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- catalog abstract ""This study assesses how versatile are the techniques of classical anthropology when confronted by the ethnographically unfamiliar. Organised around the themes of cultural meaning, social structure and social change, each essay opens with an empirical problem - an ethnograpic puzzle - which it seeks to elucidate through orthodox and heterodox uses of standard techniques. Case material is drawn from the Amazon, East Africa and Northern India."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11489806.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This study assesses how versatile are the techniques of classical anthropology when confronted by the ethnographically unfamiliar. Organised around the themes of cultural meaning, social structure and social change, each essay opens with an empirical problem - an ethnograpic puzzle - which it seeks to elucidate through orthodox and heterodox uses of standard techniques. Case material is drawn from the Amazon, East Africa and Northern India."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.".
- catalog description "Wives for sisters: managing marriage exchange in Northwest Amazonia -- Northwest Amazonia and Guiana: transformations of Amerindian social structure -- From longhouse to village: structure and change in the Colombian Amazon -- Entering the house of god: mortuary ritual and the megalithic complex of the upland Khasi, Assam -- The symbolic world of Maasai homestead -- Milk, meat and blood: Maasai diet as a cultural code -- Under conservation rule: the predicament of the Ngorongoro Maasai, Tanzania.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 274 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Ethnographic puzzles.".
- catalog identifier "0485115301 (case : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ethnographic puzzles.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Ethnographic puzzles.".
- catalog subject "305.8/001 21".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Methodology.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "GN345 .A73 2000".
- catalog subject "Social change.".
- catalog subject "Symbolic anthropology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Wives for sisters: managing marriage exchange in Northwest Amazonia -- Northwest Amazonia and Guiana: transformations of Amerindian social structure -- From longhouse to village: structure and change in the Colombian Amazon -- Entering the house of god: mortuary ritual and the megalithic complex of the upland Khasi, Assam -- The symbolic world of Maasai homestead -- Milk, meat and blood: Maasai diet as a cultural code -- Under conservation rule: the predicament of the Ngorongoro Maasai, Tanzania.".
- catalog title "Ethnographic puzzles : essays on social organization, symbolism and change / Kaj Århem.".
- catalog type "text".